Why are you here on these boards/playing this game?
Personally it was pure luck that I stumbled upon this site. For starters my laptop just burned out last week so now I'm forced onto my cousin's laptop for internet access and because her computer is so old and decrepit I can't play my usual games like Guild Wars and CS:Source. There is my XBox, but I've beaten most of my games already and because I was so disappointed in the state of the multiplayer in Halo 2 I cancelled my XBox live account last month.
So I decided to look for a new game. Then I saw my Risk board downstairs and though how I wanted to play but I could never find anyone willing to spend a good couple of hours rolling dice (heck even I was getting tired of rolling dice towards the end). We talked about how cool it would be to have the computer take care of the dice for us. One of my friends mentioned an online version where turns take only a few minutes each.
So 2 years later I decided to go and try it and hated it (because if you didn't finish your move in 30s-2m, it would kick you out of the game). So I looked up more about Risk in Wikipedia and found this site as one of the external links.
Now that I'm here I'm loving it. This site gives the best of both worlds, it's relitivly slower than instant speed which gives people time to think and plan, but faster than something like PBeM which takes way too long. Also I've been looking for a forum community to join since I stopped visiting forums frequently when I started College.
So an almost random string of events (laptop dying, may she rest in piece, me cancelling my xbox live account, me more or less randomly searching wikipedia) lead me here. What about you guys?
